I dont really think you can pinpoint an exact origin of death metal. If you listen to bands like early morbid angel or death the music is really just aggressive thrash with harsh vocals. In my mind true death metal is something that for the most part leaves out the thrash tendencies , something like infester or morpheus descends. Death Metal only became what it was through a very gradual evolution, there was no one moment where all of a sudden death metal came into existence. However, I think that all death metal owes something to slayer for their use of atonal riffs and focus on aggression rather then melody.

Although I'm an agent of ZOG, I still always end up here. no other site has such well done reviews and respect for metal music. Every other website uses words like "sick" and "extreme brutality" and seems to review lots of christian metalcore and other brutal genres.

The album Art I picked here is based not only on its visual appeal, but how it represents the album. I'm sure lots of people find the art on the Baphomet cover, and mabey even the Morpheus and Autopsy albums cheezy or unprofessional, but they do capture the feel of the album. Dirty, raw, and just ugly.

Children of Bodom are bad, and thats not an oppinion its a fact. Their songs are just rehashed formulas of heavy metal, rock, and their newer stuff is almost starting to resemble scremo. Alot of people think that theirs no difference between technique and talent. Sure CoB can play their instruments very well, but their ability to write songs is trash.

Of all the bands I saw at this show (not including slayer of course), Mastodon was the best. However, the only thing that made them better then the other bands was that they were boring rather then obnoxious.

Lamb of God is a band that is an example of all that metal shouldn't be. The stage performance was embarrasing, with the vocalist jumping around the stage like it was a fucking hip hop concert, and letting out "signiture shrieks" that shrieked "nu-metal".

Last night I went to see Slayer play at the "unholy alliance tour". I'll say right now, it was pretty much 100 % bullshit. Lamb of God and Mastodon were the most horrible fucking bands I've ever heard. In fact, I felt like I was listening to Limp Bizkit or Desturbed, not metal.